Film Series: South Asian Cinema
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In conjunction with Engl 50/Wm St 150
"Women Writing South Asia" and SPCL 91P "Visual Culture in the
South Asian Diaspora", this film series will explore South Asian cinema as
a form of cultural production in which women and diasporic auteurs have come to
play a major role. The series will encompass films dealing with the women's
question in 19th c Bengal (Satyajit Ray's Devi), to the traumatic migrations of
the Indian subcontinent's Partition (Deepa Mehta's 1947 Earth), to contemporary
films set in upper middle-class New Delhi (Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding) and
amongst South Asian immigrants in New Jersey (Nisha Ganatra's Chutney Popcorn).
The films to be screened have been variously produced in "Bollywood",
New York City, and in the New Wave and independent circuits of South Asian
film-making. We hope through this series to generate interest in the
extraordinarily rich tradition and innovation of South Asian cinema.
(ALL FILMS ON MONDAYS AT 7 PM IN 101 GREENLAW
HALL, UNC-CH):